Archive for April, 2007
Sunday, April 29th, 2007
Another term, another great bunch of 49X projects:
David Wright and Richard Zhao made a lot of progress rewriting a brain scan visualizer for the Rotman Research Institute. The project was co-supervised by Imran Somji, an ex-49er himself.
Muhammad Ali and Adam Foster built a very nice dashboard display for DrProject. ...
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Sunday, April 29th, 2007
We'd like to try to integrate instant messaging into a software project management portal like DrProject, so that users who prefer IM to email will find DrP more appealing (i.e., use it of their own free will), and (more importantly) so that their conversations won't evaporate, but instead will stick ...
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Friday, April 27th, 2007
Via Simon Willison, a video of Ivan Krstic talking about OLPC at Google. Good overview...
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Friday, April 27th, 2007
If you have five minutes to take part in a study of test-driven development, your input would be very welcome.
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
Joel Spolsky has a guest editorial in Inc. magazine titled "Recruiting the Top 1 Percent". It won't be new to regular readers of his blog, but it's a good summary of his views...
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
We're two weeks away from starting another round of revisions on the Online Marking Tool (OLM), so I've started catching up with other code review tools. So far, I've looked at:
Crucible, from Cenqua (via Matt Doar)
Code Collaborator, from SmartBear
Mondrian, at Google
and I'd welcome pointers to others that people have ...
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
Interesting post at Marginal Revolution (a site I hadn't seen before, and about which I know nothing) reporting on a study reporting that the gender gap among tenured professors can be entirely explained by fertility decisions. What makes the Marginal Revolution post really interesting is the comments, which claim that ...
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
This is just plain cool: a systematic classification of visualization methods with pop-up examples. Kudos to Ralph Lengler and Martin Eppler...
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Monday, April 23rd, 2007
As announced previously, U of T is bringing in two new software engineering courses starting in 2007-08. Team projects will play a large part in both, so I'm looking for student-friendly guides to project management. I know of three books and one online resource that focus specifically on this topic:
Dawson: ...
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Friday, April 20th, 2007
One of my new-month's resolutions was to consolidate my posts (fewer, with more content), but I just can't resist this XKCD comic:
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